[Thunar-dev] what about two plugins?

[Nick Schermer]

2009/3/3 Sergiy Kukunin <sergey.kukunin at gmail.com>:
> Hi. I'm new here. I use xfce a lot of time, and thunar as filemanager. I
> like it, but there are two usefull features, what thunar can't do (IMHO) :
> first feature is tabs support. I think, it's no so hard to implement. And
> second - is samba share browsing. As for me, thunar isn't worst than
> nautilus or konqueror, but it would be great to have samba support. Is it
> possible to implement this?
> I have some free time every day, and I can implement something of there, but
> I didn't found any documentation about developing plugins for thunar. I have
> some questions:
> 1. Can I develop plugin on another language than C? (I know C++);
> 2. Where can I find documentations/manuals about thunar developing?
>
> Its all for this time.
> Sorry for my bad English, I know C++ better than English :)

You cannot add tab support using a plugin, and it won't be accepted in
the thunar code either (design decision).

Samba support will be supported (IIRC) when thunar-vfs is replaced
with gio and Jannis is working on that.

You can look here for some api docs: http://www.xfce.org/documentation/

Nick